While varied forms of migration have always existed, the last few
decades have witnessed vast displacements and resettlements of
many populations. World and ethnic wars, the dissolution of nations,
environmental ...

The dynamic between viewer and art object is central to Eva Hesse’s oeuvre.
In writing about Hesse’s sculpture through the viewer’s experience of the work, I
demonstrate the experiential and embodied nature of viewership. ...

The field of postcolonial studies has evolved through a continuing exploration of the effects of colonialism on countries and individuals. Among the objects of such exploration are the literary texts that offer a powerful ...

My thesis is a comparison of two texts: Madame Chrysanthème, by Pierre Loti, and Turkish Embassy Letters, by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Loti was a French author and sailor writing in the late 19th century and Montagu was ...

My thesis analyzes poetic identity and correspondence in two works: Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York and Jack Spicer’s After Lorca. Poeta describes New York City as a metropolitan monster. By denying his own ...

In this paper, I will study three dances based on previously existing texts. I will argue that, although the dance often retains particular messages conveyed in the origin text, the final message goes beyond, or is otherwise ...

The Sirens first appear in Book XII of Homer's Odyssey, and from this episode has emerged a tradition of the dangerously seductive and powerful feminine singing voice. In this essay, I argue that the Sirenic tradition can ...

Do the ideas about time in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, and the short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, by Jorge Luis Borges, conflict, coincide, or both? Are these views presented as positive, negative, ...